US Route 1-9

US Route 1-9 is a 31.01-mile long concurrency of US Routes 1 and 9 from their junction in Woodbridge Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey, north to New York City. The route was established in 1926, and it runs through urbanized North Jersey adjacent to New York City. Throughout most of its length in New Jersey, its runs near the New Jersey Turnpike, and, in Fort Lee, it merges onto I-95 and crosses the Hudson River on the George Washington Bridge. Between Newark and Jersey City, it runs on the Pulaski Skyway. In Hudson and Bergen Counties, the route is known as Tonnele Avenue, named for local landowner and politician John Tonnele.